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Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
The top of the BBC News website has been white-on-black for days on end (reserved for Very Serious Events) but now it’s back to black-on-white, not because the news is any better, but because white-on-black has become the norm and the BBC News editors just need somewhere to go when it gets worse
I did!
The crowd went wild when I emerged out of the dry ice with my hat on
Thank you!
I was back there somewhere
See you after!
This is the finest of replies and I salute you.
That would be an appropriate moment for sure
My aim is merely to help the people of the world along their own personal journey
I’ve never spat tea over my keyboard, and perhaps projected coffee out of my nose once in 54 years, but the regularity with which people claim to have just done these things prompts this timely warning: swallow your hot drink and put your cup down before resuming scrolling Instagram or whatever
Also, “may or may not” is covering the bases somewhat, innit, e.g. I may or may not have a villa on the French Riviera
Thanks to @vennart666.bsky.social for introducing me to the unique moves of Luigi Primo, the pizza throwing wrestler
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
We put this together and recorded some mildly entertaining / informative links
and then we play Portsmouth Monday, London Wednesday, Manchester Thursday, Glasgow Friday, don't you know
Incredible work, still sounds amazing
Lots of notes
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
Blizzard like
I’m in the middle of a week of Cardiacs rehearsals and spending all day every day in a loud, dark room, and so I haven’t had even one moment to look at the news but I’m assuming everything is alright
I was thinking this
I wish Richard Jobson would stop lurching about to the beat of a different song #totp
The similarity of the name of this product to “ear’ole” is most pleasing
Mongoose? Mangroves? Mingers?
How rude.
Hahahah
It scans perfectly, problem is that it doesnt make any sense
We’ve been waiting for you
“Ibuleve in life after love” - works for me, I wonder if they’ve ever tried to get Cher to do an advert
So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".
